Wu Liande, as a senior in the publishing industry, does not mention his connections, at least he is famous, many people know it, but on the other hand, Huo Yaowen is a nobody, and he has written two books and is a little famous.

Therefore, when bidding for orders, although Huo Yaowen will be present, he will definitely not bid in his name, under the banner of the University of Hong Kong and Wu Liande, a senior, at least he can leave a name on the Education Department, so that the other party will not even give him the opportunity to bid when he sees that he is nameless.

Huo Yaowen's eyes burned and said: "I know that Wu Lao thinks I am delusional and devouring an elephant, but I have an acquaintance who works in the Education Department, and I know from him that the Education Department's financial situation has been difficult recently, and the implementation of the six-year free education plan this time is actually a helpless move, so I think this bidding has little to do with the strength of the publishing company, the most important thing is to see who has the lowest bid price, who can get the order!!"

Originally, according to the results of previous negotiations between the Education Department, the Governor's Office and the Chief Secretary for Administration, this ordinance will be implemented slowly and on a small scale next year, but the gold robbery case reported on the news not long ago may have made our Governor Governor lose face, so we have to implement this ordinance early, so as to save his public image.

However, now that Hong Kong Island's economy is in recession, although the Education Department has announced that it will allocate a total of 200 million Hong Kong dollars for the Hong Kong Free Education Program in the next few years, it can now allocate 20 million Hong Kong dollars for Kowloon, which has almost exhausted most of the funds of the Education Department.

Wu Liande didn't quite understand what Huo Yaowen meant by this, so he frowned and asked: "Even if it has nothing to do with the strength of the publishing company, then it will be difficult for us to place such a large order, as you said, free education will be officially implemented in the month, at least hundreds of thousands of textbooks, right? And the price is low, then we can barely make any money. ”

As for the matter of printing equipment, I think that when the time comes, I will find a bank loan to solve it, and with the order from the Education Department and the guarantee of the University of Hong Kong, there should be a bank willing to lend to us. Huo Yaowen didn't care if this order could make money for him, because although his goal was to win the order, he wanted to have a bridge with various primary schools in Kowloon, so that he could sell the extracurricular tutoring books through the school.

"Don't make a penny, then what are you bidding for, president?" Wu Liande looked at Huo Yaowen's face, and didn't understand what he wanted to do, isn't winning the bid just to make money?

"I don't have to make a penny, but if the bid price is low enough and there is no bidding, I naturally want to make money. ”

Huo Yaowen clasped his hands in front of his chest, leaned back in the chair and continued: "To be honest with you, I tell you that the order for textbooks and books from the Education Department is to sell the tutoring books we have compiled, and I do not sell tutoring books in bookstores, but through various schools. For example, now I am a teacher, you are the parent of a student, I told you to buy a tutoring book to improve your child's grades, this tutoring book is compiled by professors and teachers of the University of Hong Kong, not only can improve learning, but also can make your child admitted to the University of Hong Kong to a large extent in the future, the price of this tutoring book is not very expensive, only a dozen yuan, Wu Lao, do you choose to buy or choose not to buy?"

Wu Liande didn't expect to sell tutoring books like this? At the same time, he was surprised and at the same time thinking about what Huo Yaowen just said, if he really thinks about it according to his thinking, it is definitely very big, no, not very big, but almost all the parents of students will choose to buy tutoring books, more than a dozen yuan is not very expensive, and they are also bought for children to improve their learning, and they are not bought for fun, and they are books compiled by professors of the University of Hong Kong, so they don't suffer a loss.

"Old Wu, do you want to buy it or not?" Huo Yaowen looked at Wu Liande and asked with a smile.

"Buy, definitely buy!" Wu Liande is not a pedantic person, this method of selling books seems to be pressuring the parents of students to buy, but it also depends on the parents' own wishes, and in his opinion, there must be many parents who choose to buy tutoring books, and a tutoring book is not very expensive, Chinese treat children's learning problems seriously, often the most serious and willing to spend money.

Huo Yaowen let go of his hands: "Yes! I think the vast majority of parents will choose to buy, and now the Education Department has implemented a free education plan, and the cost of students going to school and normal textbooks are jointly borne by the Education Department and the Finance Department, and the government has solved most of the costs of going to school, and parents will be happy to send their children to study, so there will be a large number of school-age children reading in the future, so that more tutoring books will be sold." ”

This method is very common in later generations, but no one has yet set their sights on this aspect, and Fok Yiu-man also determined the feasibility of this method after investigating the situation of various educational books in Hong Kong. As long as the tutoring books are not expensive to sell, and then part of the profits are ceded, then it is natural that there will be teachers to help promote these tutorial books to students.

Moreover, in addition to selling to primary schools, there are also markets for major secondary schools to be tapped, and the tutoring books published by publishing houses in the name of the University of Hong Kong determine to a large extent the students' right to choose.

At present, there are only two schools in Hong Kong that have government-issued university certificates, namely the University of Hong Kong and the University of Chinese, and although the rest of the colleges also teach university courses, they have not obtained the university qualification of the Education Department, and the graduates cannot obtain a college degree.

This is also the reason why Fok Yiu-man has always been envied by the neighbors of Tsz Wan Estate when he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong, so the tutoring book published in the name of the University of Hong Kong Press will be the inevitable choice of many students who want to take the university entrance examination!

Now that Wu Lao is the editor-in-chief, many things of the publishing house need to be handed over to him to deal with, and this matter also needs to be operated by a person, Wu Lao is the best choice, not only proficient in the publishing industry, but also his own plan, it will be very smooth to execute.

After chatting with Wu Lao for a few more words, Huo Yaowen got up to say goodbye, he still had to go to the printing house to talk to his uncle about printing the school newspaper.

After coming out of Wu Liande's office, Huo Yaowen was about to go back to his office, and when he called Huo Tingting and Zhang Wanjun to take a car to the printing house, He Qidi, the front desk clerk of the publishing house, hurriedly walked over: "Someone outside the president is looking for you." ”

"Looking for me?" Huo Yaowen frowned, his publishing house had never done business with the outside world, how could someone suddenly visit?

He Yidi shook her head: "I don't know, the person is about sixty years old, I asked him if he had made an appointment, and he said no, but he claimed that his name was Uncle Chang, and he also said your name, president." ”

"Uncle Chang??Where are the people now?" Huo Yaowen frowned when he heard this unfamiliar title, he didn't seem to know each other.

He Qidi pointed to the corridor outside the publishing house and replied: "I called him to come in together, and he said that you would just wait for the president outside." ”

"Well, I see, you go get busy. Huo Yaowen thought about it, and he decided to go out to meet this Uncle Chang, since he could say his name, he must know himself.

When Huo Yaowen walked out of the publishing house and went to the public corridor outside, he noticed that an old man with kind eyebrows was staring at him, the old man's eyes were a little cloudy but very sharp, and he seemed to give people the illusion that he could see through people's hearts.

Although Huo Yaowen didn't like the old man's eyes very much, he still approached and asked, "I don't know what the old gentleman is looking for me?"

Hearing Huo Yaowen's words, Uncle Chang's sharp gaze quickly softened, and he took out an invitation card from his pocket: "Hello Mr. Huo, I am Master Lei's housekeeper, you can call me Uncle Chang, I was instructed by the master to invite Mr. Huo to Lei's house for a talk." ”

Master Lei?

When Huo Yaowen just wanted to ask Master Lei who was on the side, he only heard Uncle Chang say: "Oh, my master is called Brother K." ”

Ray Lo!

Huo Yaowen frowned, what was Lei Luo looking for himself? It seems that except for the last time he met the other party when he went to Lichi to drink with Ma Rulong, he didn't have any communication with him at all, why would he ask himself out for no reason?

Uncle Chang obviously didn't want to say what his lord wanted to do with Huo Yaowen, so he just nodded and said, "Mr. Huo, don't worry, my lord has no malicious intentions, but there are some things I want to talk to Mr. Huo, please be sure to be there when the time comes." ”

Huo Yaowen didn't know what Lei Luo was doing with him, but listening to what Uncle Chang meant in front of him, it seemed to be a private matter, he had no money and no power, what private matter did he have to talk about with himself?

As the so-called blessing is not a curse, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, Lei Luo sent someone to come over to make an appointment in person, and solemnly placed an invitation, no matter what, he was going to go, Huo Yaowen nodded and agreed: "Okay, tell Master Lei, I will be there on time." ”

Uncle Chang smiled politely on his face, and after saying a word of farewell, he turned around and pressed the elevator button to leave.

After the others left, Huo Yaowen opened the invitation card and glanced at it in a hurry with doubts, the content on it was nothing more than an invitation to go to Lei Mansion for a gathering, the time was February 1, and the rest had no substance, and when he was about to close the invitation, he suddenly noticed the address "No. 16 Baijia Road" under the payment.

Huo Yaowen squinted his eyes slightly and muttered for a long time, he always felt that this address was very familiar, it seemed that he had seen it there, and before he could think about it carefully, he heard the complaint of the younger sister behind him: "Brother, didn't you say that it would be just for a while? Why didn't you come here after waiting in your office with my cousin for a long time, why did you come outside." ”

Suddenly thinking of something, Huo Yaowen turned his head suddenly, stared straight at his sister and asked, "Tingting, last time I sent you to Su Zhen's house, is her home address at No. 16 Baijia Road in the Mid-Levels Villa District?"

"Yes, at that time, you also said that her family was very wealthy, and she actually lived in Baijiadao in the mid-mountainous area. Huo Tingting tilted her head, looked at Huo Yaowen who looked wrong, and asked suspiciously, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"Nope. Huo Yaowen shook his head and said to the younger sister: "What about Wanjun, go and call her out, let's drive back." ”

"Oh. Huo Tingting didn't pay much attention to his question just now, nodded and turned around and went into the publishing house to call her cousin Zhang Wanjun.

Looking at the back of the younger sister leaving, Huo Yaowen fell into deep thought, Lu Suzhen and Lei Luo? One surname Lei and the other surname Lu, what is the relationship between the two? It can't be that Lu Suzhen is Lei Luo's daughter, right?

Lei Luo's daughter?

Thinking of this possibility, Huo Yaowen felt a little clearer in his heart, no wonder at No. 16 Baijia Road, where he sent his younger sister to No. 16, Lu Suzhen came out to greet her as the host, and said that her old bean had a coming-of-age ceremony for her, and now Lei Luo made an appointment with him according to this address, thinking that the two should be father and daughter.

As for why Lei Luo wanted his daughter's surname Lu, it was nothing more than that others would know that Lu Suzhen was her daughter, or that there were some other hidden secrets.

Huo Yaowen has no communication with Lei Luo, and the other party asked him to talk about private matters, I think it should be related to Lu Suzhen, could it be ......